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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1907
Page
4
The notice lists subscription rates for the Monroe Weekly Times with daily edition at 25 cents per month or 3 dollars per year and weekly edition on Mondays and Thursdays at 1 dollar per year in advance. It notes post office entry as second class matter and provides the telephones No. 3 Monroe Wis. Dated June 17, 1907.
Friday updates include many residents traveling to Milwaukee Madison Rockford and Chicago for visits work or relocation. Reports include a funeral in Dakota il a pharmacist job in Mazomanie a new high school election in Wayne and a busy Albany Central house reopening with new proprietors.
A wide list of residents travel between Monticello, Madison, Chicago and other towns, with many heading to university commencements, family visits, or outings at Lake Kegonsa. Several engagements, health, and civic items fill the docket, including a large monument project in Greenwood cemetery and the Olympic theatre fire aftermath in Chicago.
Dr A J Schindler has moved into the late Dr E E Rust’s rooms in the Schindler block and offers full dental services. Mr and Mrs E L Soper of Rice Lake are visiting old friends in Green county. they formerly lived in Adams and now farm near Rice Lake. The husband suffers rheumatic pain and uses a cane and crutch.
A long list of residents and visitors in the city includes P. J. Clawson in Brodhead, Edger Patterson in Monticello, Miss Isabel Montieth from Milwaukee, Prof. F. P. Fisher named Winslow principal, and numerous trips to Madison Freeport Milwaukee and Chicago plus social events at Grace Lutheran and a wedding anniversary supper plans.
A nostalgic piece compares life to a picnic lunch where everyone helps themselves. The narrator recalls Sunday school picnics with tables full of fried chicken and desserts, noting how those who hesitate miss out while others feast. City visitors often eat first, leaving town youths with only bones.
Cordwood and stove wood of all kinds for sale by W. B. Shafer. Phone 232.
Fine growing weather as Mrs. Rice visits Blanchardville for daughter Mame’s illness. Will Grenzow recovers from injuries. Mrs. Newman reworks her house. Mrs. Collins and Mrs. McElwee visit Evansville. Roderick improves and can now sit up. Barnum seeks sale of one sixth of forty acres and a share of Manchester estate. WCTU plans suffrage meeting and picnic at Miss Lake’s timber. Children’s day at Methodist church June 23 evening. Kiider reunion at Rock City Thursday. A J McGranahan & Son offer improved farms city property and loans. no showing charge. office Room 17 Bailey Block Platteville Wis.
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